Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia there are 1,800 state-supported primary music schools, 160 four-year technical schools, 22 five-year conservatories, plus an assortment of "houses of culture" for workers' unions. Conditions in the U.S. are also impressive. One in six American youngsters plays an instrument, report Maler & Co., as compared to one in every 16 German youngsters. The reason? Most American schools provide two hours of music instruction weekly through the first six grades. Part of the trouble in Germany, say the educators, is that schools do not detect talent early enough...
...Even an articulate man like Kennedy cannot always avoid the kind of slips that marred almost every Eisenhower conference. With millions of people looking on, there is no time for the hasty Hagerty correction before the mistake has had its effect. The news conference is a particularly ill-designed instrument to serve as a major element in Presidential policy and the Presidential image...
...only to supply the army's hardware and pick up the bill for its troops' pay and maintenance. As millions of dollars worth of U.S. military aid to Laos rotted through the years from improper care, the U.S. decided it had to tackle the problem itself. The instrument chosen was a State Department outfit called the Programs Evaluation Office, which had been delivering the arms along with some rudimentary instruction in their...
...permanent conductors of Amsterdam's famed old Concertgebouw Orchestra. Haitink has guest-conducted widely throughout Europe, is best known for his coolly controlled readings of Beethoven and Bruckner. A childhood violin student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Haitink "felt the need to have a broader instrument," studied conducting, was soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded under Willem Mengelberg. Some critics call him too nuchter (sober...
...traffic control was not a compelling need. But as the membership of the House and the role of the Federal Government expanded, the Rules Committee grew in importance and power. From 1858, the Speaker of the House was a member of the committee, and ambitious Speakers made it an instrument of their own power. Maine's Thomas Reed, Speaker in 1889-91 and again in 1895-99, used to decide the business of the five-member Rules Committee with his two fellow Republicans without even bothering to meet with the two Democratic members. "Gentlemen," he would say, when...